After a recount of 10% of the vote, Iran said that there were “few or no errors” and certified Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner.
Former Birmingham, Alabama, city Councilman Bill Johnson is running for governor as a Republican. In 1994, he ran under the Libertarian Party banner for Senator on a platform legalizing drugs and prostitution. [...]

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The New York State Senate continues to act like a chamber of kindergartners.
The Senate, which has spent the last few weeks squabbling over who should preside was finally ordered by a judge to meet. The Senate is currently deadlocked 31-31 between Democrats and Republicans. Neither side can agree on who should preside, so they choose to remain [...]

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Oklahoma state Representative Sally Kern has the economic troubles of the United States figured out. The causes are “abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse, and many other forms of debauchery.”
Kern developed a proclamation that states that we should live our lives as the Bible declares, and then everything will [...]

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The timing is impeccable. Obama had just finished saying, “real, tranformative change never begins in Washington.” Sounds like the duck agrees.

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South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said that he first thought of resigning, but later decided not to because he wanted to “learn lessons rather than running and hiding down at the farm.”
Now, you might want to know what other lessons Sanford is talking about, because he has probably gathered quite a few of them over [...]

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Malmo, Sweden’s third largest city has legalized topless bathing at public swimming pools. After a feminist group attended public swimming pools topless, the city council was asked to pass a law requiring women to cover up. However, the city council decided that since it does not require special swimwear for men, it could not do that [...]

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In the spirit of the usual communist disunity, India’s Maoist Communist Party is criticizing Nepal’s Communist Party, also Maoist, and its leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda of betraying the cause. The reason was that Prachanda choose to make a peace deal with opposing political parties in Nepal.
North Korea’s Kim Jung-Il might be in poor health [...]

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Amir Sadeghi, a prominent photojournalist and publisher of the popular Tehranlive.org blog, was released yesterday after being arrested and held most of the last week.
Amir’s photographs of the protests have provided a powerful and visible presence of what is happening in Iran to the outside world. The last week had people throughout the world massing [...]

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The list of politicians caught in sex scandals never seems to end, and in some cases, the stories keep coming back. Next up: John Edwards.
Former Edwards’ aide, Andrew Young has inked a book deal declaring he is not the father of Rielle Hunter’s child, despite declaring that he was last year. Young says the father is [...]

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